50th anniversary of the first videotape broadcast

Thursday 30 November 2006

On 30th November 1956 the first video recording was broadcast from CBS Television City, in Hollywood.

It was a tape of Douglas Edwards reading the news and was recorded and played on an Ampex Mark IV Video Tape Recorder.

Tags: television, video, war

Filed under: Science, TV & film — GS @ 12:10 am

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